Children and young people with anorexia nervosa (AN) are often recommended family-based treatment as the first-line intervention (Gorrell et al., 2019). The child who has struggled to eat – limiting their intake, counting calories, adhering to rigid rules about food – is now re-fed by their parents and has the control over food taken away from them in efforts to restore their physical health. The parents who may have previously transitioned away from being responsible for their child’s intake, are now empowered by the treatment team to take...
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Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a caregiver-child approach designed to address attachment insecurity and developmental trauma (Hughes, 2007; Golding, 2025), particularly in children...
Antipsychotic medication has transformed treatment for patients with schizophrenia and related psychiatric disorders, but what is their effect on the thinking brain? Most...
The second paper, titled 'Policy and public health implications for mental health after the COVID-19 pandemic', took a wider view of population-level mental...
Across both groups, greater awareness and use of strengths were consistently linked to better mental health outcomes. Individuals who actively used their strengths...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains a topic of much interest across clinics, social media, academic research and the Mental Elf woodland with...
Study quality further influenced results. Smaller studies and those with a higher risk of bias tended to report higher prevalence rates, suggesting that...